Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Richard Cohen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net). [Transcriber's Note: + Original spellings and inconsistent hyphenation have been kept, except that ... + Obvious corrections have been made silently. The original text can be found in the HTML or the XML version. + Educated guesses have been made for unclear text. The original text can be found in the HTML or the XML version. + Hyphens caused by a line break have been removed. + Italics were used widely in the original, and have been retained in the HTML file. In this text file, they have only been kept when used for _emphasis_, or for 'direct speech'. ] April 2, 1748. The late great Demand for the FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS, occasioning it to be out of Print sooner than was expected; this is to advertise the Public, that a new Edition of that Book is now in the Press, and will be published the Beginning of next Month. * * * * * LIFE's PROGRESS THROUGH THE PASSIONS: OR, THE ADVENTURES OF NATURA. By the Author of The FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS. [Illustration: Portrait of the printer] LONDON: Printed by T. Gardner, and Sold at his Printing-Office, at Cowley's Head, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand. M,DCC,XLVIII. * * * * * Just Published by T. Gardner, In Four Beautiful Pocket Volumes, (Price Twelve Shillings bound.) Correctly printed from the Octavo Edition, (With New Engraved Frontispieces,) The FEMALE SPECTATOR, COMPLEAT. 'The great Encomiums bestowed on this Work by some of the most distinguished Judges, have been so frequently inserted in all the public Papers, that it is presumed no one can be unacquainted with them, and therefore are thought needless here to be particularized: But that so useful a Work may be more universally read, (especially by the younger and politer Sort of Ladies, for whom it is more peculiarly adapted,) it is now printed in the above-mentioned Size, which will be less cumbersome to them, and the Expence being reduced to one half of what the Octavo Edition sells at, it may be more easily purchased The great Encomiums bestowed on this Work by some of the most distinguished Judges, have been so frequently inserted in all the public Papers, that it is presumed no one can be unacquainted with them, and therefore are thought needless here to be particularized: But that so useful a Work may be more universally read, (especially by the younger and politer Sort of Ladies, for whom it is more peculiarly adapted,) it is now printed in the above-mentioned Size, which will be less cumbersome to them, and the Expence being reduced to one half of what the Octavo Edition sells at, it may be more easily purchased' The above Work is printed in a larger Letter, in Octavo, Price 1l. 4s. bound. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION, Page 1. BOOK the First. CHAP. I.